I was the Exhibit Chair for the 1996 FGS Conference so I had to visit the exhibit hall at the recent FGS Conference. I thought that I was going in to see what everyone was selling. As I look at it now, there is a pile of genealogy swag that I collected. There are sample …
The State of Michigan has been hit really hard by the bad economy. In order to save money, the Governor has proposed closing down the Department of History, Arts and Libraries. That means that the Library of Michigan would be closed and the collection spread out to other places. Now, in reaction to the possible …
The cartoon character, Ziggy, is having someone research his family tree. Go see what the researcher found.
Last week I attended the FGS Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. I will be writing about some of the things I saw and heard at the Conference.
I grew up in Elmira, NY. We first got a TV about 1953. I have a memory of a channel 24 in Elmira that signed on about 5:00 in the afternoon and the first program on every day during the week was Jungle Jim starring Johnny Weissmuller. Also I remember that channel 24′s antenna blew …